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Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going...

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Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Source: In What's Whoopi...

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Lily Tomlin: The formula for...

Lily Tomlin: The formula for...

The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?

Source:...

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Liv Ullmann: We all need...

Liv Ullmann: We all need...

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked . . . not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We...

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Judy Garland: How strange when...

Judy Garland: How strange when...

How strange when an illusion dies, it's as though you've lost a child.

Source: An...

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Phyllis Diller: We spend the...

Phyllis Diller: We spend the...

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling...

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Gracie Allen: My husband will...

Gracie Allen: My husband will...

My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only 64. He...

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Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

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Hazel Scott: There's a time...

Hazel Scott: There's a time...

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the...

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: I had not...

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet
In wistful April...

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Audre Lorde: Our feelings are...

Audre Lorde: Our feelings are...

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Source: My Words Will Be...

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Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: Biology transcends society....

Jessie Redmon Fauset: Biology transcends society....

Biology transcends society.

Source: The Chinaberry Tree, 1913.
-- Jessie Redmon...

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Maxine Kumin: To write about...

Maxine Kumin: To write about...

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...

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Maureen Duffy: Love is the...

Maureen Duffy: Love is the...

Love is the only effective counter to death.

Source: Wounds, 1969.
-- Maureen...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: It would be...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: It would be...

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like...

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Billie Holiday: Somebody once said...

Billie Holiday: Somebody once said...

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

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Miriam Makeba: Africa has her...

Miriam Makeba: Africa has her...

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects...

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Mariah Carey: My mother is...

Mariah Carey: My mother is...

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me -- I'm tan, I guess.

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Fanny Brice: Being a funny...

Fanny Brice: Being a funny...

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't...

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